Environment & Energy

caraher

(6,278 posts) Tue May 13, 2014, 07:46 PM May 2014

What it's like to own a Tesla Model S

From The Oatmeal... I have my reservations about what our friend NNadir aptly refers to as our "car CULTure," but if you must drive we should be driving cars more like the "Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder."

Much more at the link...

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What it's like to own a Tesla Model S (Original Post) caraher May 2014 OP

I hate my cars and they hate me. hunter May 2014 #1

I had a period of about 6 years of a 40 minute each-way low traffic commute caraher May 2014 #3

We've rented two houses and bought two for location. hunter May 2014 #4

Tesla Model S From $69,900 donco May 2014 #2

My electric car is powered by coal. Travis_0004 May 2014 #5

A lot of them are caraher May 2014 #6

hunter

(38,309 posts)

1. I hate my cars and they hate me.

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 08:09 PM

May 2014

I'm a NNadirite about car CULTure.

Nevertheless my oldest kid & SO bought a used Prius. The Tesla was beyond their reach.

Meanwhile I'll stick with my decades old $800 car held together with JB Weld and bailing wire, which, fortunately, I don't have commute in. I work at home, my wife works a mile away as the crow flies.

When my wife and I met we were Los Angeles commuters. Commuting sucks, especially in Los Angeles stop-and-go traffic. It used to take me more than an hour to get twenty miles on bad days. I'd get home and take a long shower before I was human again.

By some good fortune my wife and I were able to escape the car CULTure.

Everyone should have that opportunity.

caraher

(6,278 posts)

3. I had a period of about 6 years of a 40 minute each-way low traffic commute

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Tue May 13, 2014, 08:18 PM

May 2014

Easy as that was, I was sure happy to put THAT behind me! Apart from that I've walked or biked to work my whole life, very much by design. My wife walks too and everyone at her job thinks she's nuts.

hunter

(38,309 posts)

4. We've rented two houses and bought two for location.

Reply to caraher (Reply #3)

Tue May 13, 2014, 08:45 PM

May 2014

Life spent driving a car to and from work is wasted.

Maybe audio books and serious thinking could change that, but probably not.

I'm not able to multi-task audio books and serious thinking in heavy traffic.

donco

(1,548 posts)

2. Tesla Model S From $69,900

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 08:17 PM

May 2014

my 2012 VW golf TDI some how gets me and my crotch from point A to point B without blowing either of us up.

Travis_0004

(5,417 posts)

5. My electric car is powered by coal.

Reply to caraher (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2014, 09:38 PM

May 2014

caraher

(6,278 posts)

6. A lot of them are

Reply to Travis_0004 (Reply #5)

Tue May 13, 2014, 11:22 PM

May 2014

But the difference is that a gasoline-powered car will never be powered by anything else. If you plan to keep an EV for a long time and can decarbonize your electricity over time then it may be step forward even if your car is coal-powered today.

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